So, you are tweeting and tweeting regularly, but you are seeing no or very little engagement in terms of favourites, link clicks and follows. You have a small amount of followers, so getting the retweets you want and need seem impossible, or perhaps, you have many followers who aren’t retweeting (or you just want more). Let me tell you 10 simple ways you can get more retweets.
Twitter allows you to tweet up to 140 characters, but that does not mean you should actually use 140 characters. …
So, your blog is starting to get some serious traffic and the costs of maintaining the blog, including your time, is increasing, or perhaps, you want to make your blog your job and therefore, you are now looking for ways to earn money from your blog. Here is a list of 10 ways to earn money from your blog:
Selling advertising space on a blog is probably the most common form of earning money from a blog and you’ve probably seen it countless amount of times.
You could sell text, banner and / or overlay popup ads and on two different basis: cost-per-click (CPC) and cost per mille (CPM); where per mille means per thousand. …
Apache Tomcat is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation that allows you to run Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages based web applications.
We will first do a package repository update:
sudo apt-get update
Next, we will install Apache Tomcat 7:
sudo apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-docs tomcat7-admin tomcat7-examples
Apache Tomcat 7 is now installed. You can confirm Apach Tomcat is working by going to port 8080
.
http://<ip address>:8080
Remember to replace <ip address>
with your server’s IP address.
You should see a large heading title “It works !” followed by more generic information.
To run Java application, you will need to install the Java Development Kit (JDK). …
Twitter is a great way for businesses to communicate with their current customers and to reach new customers. However, it’s not as easy as posting a sentence and that’s it. Here are 10 common Twitter mistakes I see businesses make:
The number of times you tweet should be directly related to your audience. If we look at Warren Buffett‘s Twitter account, we can see that he has over a million followers but posts every now and then. Whereas, Kim Kardashian posts multiple times of day. It speaks to their audience and what their audience is after.
So, when a social media company says you should post X amount of times per day, I say no. …
Apache Cordova is a top level project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). What Apache Cordova does is, it allows you to build native mobile apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This tutorial is going to show you how-to install Apache Cordova’s command-line interface (CLI). The CLI allows you to create new apps, build apps on different platforms, and run the apps on real devices or within emulators.
Before we can install the Cordova CLI, we will need to install the prerequisites: NodeJS, NPM and Git. So let’s get started!
Run the following command to install NodeJS:
sudo apt-get install…
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to setup a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on Ubuntu 16.04 and Apache web server.
Firstly, we will install Certbot, which is an easy-to-use automatic client that fetches and deploys Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS certificates for your webserver.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-apache
That’s it, you can now go to the next step, which is installing your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate!
sudo certbot --apache -d yourdomain.com
Replace yourdomain.com with the domain name you’d like the Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for.
You can install multiple Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates by using -d domainname.com, …
Checklist for pre-launching websites or websites that are already live.
Frontend Checklist for Websites project page may be found here.
<link rel="preload" as="script">
<link rel="dns-prefetch">
A quick checklist for web accessibility, which also acts as a great beginners’ guide. Website for the Website Accessibility Checklist may be found here.
<header role="banner">
Typically your website’s header.
<nav role="navigation">
Navigation of your website, which contains navigation links.
<main role="main">
The one area where content is primarily focused.
<article role="article">
One content item. An example is a single blog post in an index.
<aside role="complementary">
Separated content section that supports the main content.
<footer role="contentinfo">
Footer that contains information about the document such as website author, website ownership, copyright information, links to legal documents, etc…
<form role="search">
Give the end user the ability to search your document or website. …
Managing and building your travel blog can be hard, especially if you don’t have the right tools.I’ve put together a collection of 10 tools that every travel blogger should use to help manage and build their travel blog
#1
Smush.it is a tool by Yahoo! that uses image optimization techniques to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. The optimization of images is done without changing the image look or visual quality.
Simply out, Smush.it decreases file size to save you on space and bandwidth, plus helps increase your page load speed.
#2
GTmetrix helps you optimize the performance of your blog and does so by using Google PageSpeed and Yahoo! ySlow rules. It will let you know ways to increase your blog’s page speed. A faster blog, equals a happier visitor. …